Recent News

Drs. Ann Ramenofsky (UNM Associate Professor Emerita) and Kari Schleher (UNM Anthropology Alumna) were awarded the best 2018 Anthropology/ Archaeology book by The New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. Their volume, The Archaeology and History of Pueb...read more

Congratulatulations to Dr. Patricia Crown, Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, for being selected as the 2018 prestigious AV Kidder Award in Southwestern archaeology. She was selected from an elite group of nominations. Dr. Crown r...read more

College Factual released its 2019 national and state rankings for Best Anthropology Programs for Veterans. University of New Mexico – Main Campus performed especially well in these rankings. UNM’s Anthropology program is ranked #17...read more

Congratulations to UNM students who presented at the annual Southwest Association of Biological Anthropologists' meeting in Las Vegas on November 3. UNM swept the student prizes.
First-year PhD student Megan Cole won the student poster prize for her...read more

Dr. Keith Prufer and the UNM Center for Stable Isotopes are part of large international collaboration linking Early Holocene human DNA in Belize to earliest populations in North and South America. The article, Reconstructing the Deep Population Hist...read more

Archaeology graduate student Jon Dombrosky has been awarded a high-priority GPSA New Mexico Research Grant for his study of the amino acid signature of maize in fishes from the late prehispanic Middle Rio Grande.
Research Abstract:
Doing initi...read more

Congratulations to archaeology grad student Katie Brewer, who received a GPSA New Mexico Research Grant for her study of how conversion affected Pueblo practices at mission sites in the U.S. Southwest.
Research Abstract:
My research analyzes...read more

Dr. Carla M. Sinopoli, an archaeologist specializing in South Asia, has joined The University New Mexico as Director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology. Dr. Sinopoli comes to UNM from the University of Michigan...read more

Dr. Patricia Crown will be featured in a new four part PBS Series: Native America. Episode 1: From Caves to Cosmos, premiers on October 23 at 8 pm. Native America explores the world created by America’s First Peoples. The four p...read more

Dr. Hannah Mattson was featured in the October 20 episode of ¡COLORES! on New Mexico PBS. Dr. Mattson discussed ancient jewlery making and how it can be used to study the past. ¡COLORES! is a weekly art series w...read more

Dr. Les Field, Professor and Chair, has been awarded an EAGER (Early Concept Grant for Exploratory Research) from the National Science Foundation, to begin a project entitled “Accelerating Anthropogenic Climate Change and Contemporary Agr...read more

Congratulations to Jill Jordan, Archaeology doctoral candidate, who has been awarded a post-doctoral Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant for a project entitled, Investigating the Effects of Societal Collapse on Information Exchange, Community Interaction, ...read more

In a recent journal article in Open Quartenary, UNM Anthropology Department researchers Victoria Monagle, Cyler Conrad, and Emily Lena Jones, set out to answer the question, “What Makes a Dog?” The group started their investiga...read more

The Human Biology Association hosts a podcast, “The Sausage of Science”, moderated by Cara Ocobock and Christopher Lynn, to discuss cutting edge research in biological anthropology. In the episode “Doomed to Mad Maxian World?&#8221...read more

Ethnology doctoral student, Holly Brause, received a grant from the New Mexico Water Resources Institute (WRRI) to support her dissertation research. Her project, The Everyday Politics of Irrigated Agriculture and an Uncertain Future, focuses ...read more